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Question from netizen "The other party is typing...": Hello Mr. Xia, when the United States banned ZTE, Huawei and other companies in 2019, why did the domestic non-reciprocal ban on Apple, Tesla, Microsoft, Nvidia and other American high-tech companies?
A: Think of it as a long river that crosses borders. Countries downstream are most afraid of building dams upstream to cut off rivers and then control and extort them downstream. In the global industrial chain, the upstream links include energy, raw materials, and technology. The U.S. banning ZTE and Huawei is cutting off both their upstream and downstream. Because the United States not only controls the upstream of science and technology, but also controls a large overseas downstream market of ZTE and Huawei.
When ZTE and Huawei's products are not necessary for the United States, it can close the market to them, because it can find replacements, and these replacements are companies in its own circle. Handing over the market to them is tantamount to exchanging benefits to make them obey the orders of the United States and work together to contain China. But these technology companies in the United States, they are indispensable upstream and downstream for China. We must now use NVIDIA's chips, we must use Microsoft's operating system, and we must use Apple's foundry system to develop our own high-end manufacturing. Of course, Microsoft's artificial intelligence technology is also an important upstream technology. The word "banned" is used here, not against these companies, but against themselves.
Now it's actually a race to see who can solve the problem of their own industrial chain links first. The United States should establish a manufacturing system of industrial finished products that does not depend on China in the midstream as soon as possible, and China should complete the self-satisfaction of the upstream and downstream as soon as possible, mainly the manufacturing of high-tech core components (especially chips), software development, the construction of a basic scientific research system, and energy self-sufficiency. The downstream is the consumer market, that is, the establishment of a unified national market, which has been repeatedly emphasized. In addition, there is a fundamental upstream issue to be addressed: the monetization of international reserves in national currencies. It is precisely this that the United States has taken advantage of, maintaining its position as the world hegemon. It is precisely this point that is a strong constraint on China's further development.
Therefore, we can see that China will definitely not follow the steps of the United States. Just like playing chess, where the opponent plays, you will play, always follow the logic of the opponent, and the opponent will definitely lose. Go was invented by us Chinese, and this truth was basically understood two or three thousand years ago.
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